comment to jhance:
I have been using sony brand CD-R's and I have checked somewhere on internet that these are pretty good and have a rating about 1.7, which is same as the ones for HP's own brand and TDK and a few others. Memorex and Maxell are at the bottom with about 3.4 as the score (higher is worse.. and I forget what the number actually signifies.). Frankly, I dont really think it is the CD-R blanks that is causing a problem I do suspect that the new firmware 3.01 may be causing problems. Prior to this I had 1.0. But I am not sure.. i hoped that someone who had and idea would clarify. Thanks for your comment anyway.

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comment to Jhance: Yeah. I did upgrade recently 3.01.
what does the flashing greenlight indefinitely signify though? I dont understand that. What does the orange light signify? (this one i can guess.. probably laser beam activity.). Anyway, I am looking for a first hand clarification. Right now I can only speculate this or that and not sure about anything. Once I have first hand clarification then may be I have a claim for a replacement. If you know for sure please answer the question so that I can close this.

Further, I found that HP Writer sensitive to media. Good media
was: Fuji, Philips, TDK (partially). Old TDKs were OK, new (Reflex)
were 80%/20% of success/fail. Sony was big grief: from 3 CDs, 2
were coasters.
Now program: I made more coasters with EasyCD Deluxe than with
EasyCD Pro 2.xx (just statistically).

comment to Busuka: I am very happy to see your comments on this matter. I think you have come closest to answering my question. Anyway, please answer the question so that I can grade and give you the points you deserve.
My system is IDE which is why I can use EasyCd PRO. I am using EZ CD Dlx, ver. 3.01b which is supposed to be the latest. In your opinion, the blinking green light, with orange light gone signifies the fact that, the program is trying to find CD inorder to write but cant find it! Because the media is bad. Is that what you are implying? ALso, I have seen in some surver, that Sony CD-R's are rated on par with TDK, HP, with a rating of 1.7... some other brands had upto 3.4 (maxell for ex.). higher the number, greater the chance for a coaster.

Another question I have for you, should I go ahead and report to HP tech support and get a new CD-RW on the basis of this problem?
Thanks in advance

falcon, I made little survey on this issue and came to conclusion
that best CD-R is Yamaha 4260 SCSI. My source was number of
negative articles in Usenet. HP outnumbered them all. Yamaha (this
CD-RW) has least number. After Yamaha was Ricoh 6200 MediaMaster.

Actually I have! I made a CD for my daughter with her favorites on it.(19 songs, 662MB)
I have a Memorex CRW-1622, internal, 2x6 re-writable. ($299.00 at CompUsa Direct)
It has NTI software bundled with it and does DAO recording.
Regards,
Ralph

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